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4. Paragraph (b) of the definition of the term "corporation under
prohibited control" follows the model of the definition of the
term H enemy controlled corporation" in the Non-Ferrous Metal In-
dustry Act, 1918, and not the model of the Trading with the Enemy
(Amendment) Act, 1918. Between these two forms, which relate to
similar subject matter, the form in the Non-Ferrous Metal Industry
Act, 1918, seemed to be preferable on the ground that the crimi-
nality of an act should not depend upon the exercise of an execu-
tive discretion. If these two forme had not both existed in blue
United Kingdom Acts the form in the Trading with the Enemy { Amend-
ment) Act, 1918, would have been followed in this Ordinance.
5.
Paragraph (d) of the same definition has been slightly altered
from the paragraph in the Act.
6.
The definition of the term "prohibited person" refers to a
date prior to the conclusion of the armistice, because it was sug-
gested by a member of the Council that some question might con-
ceivably be raised in the construction of the Ordinance if the
term were defined by a date subsequent to the armistice, though it
was realised that the armistice did not put an end to the state of
The definition includes within the term every person who has
at any time been a subject of any state which is at the present
moment an enemy state. This perhaps goes beyond the Trading with
the Enemy (Amendment) Act, 1918, but it seems to be in conformity
with the intention of the Fun-Ferrous Metal Industry Act, 1918,
though the point is not quite clear.
war.
7.
8.
The use of the terms auove referred to necessitated througnout
the Ordinance various verbal departures from the form of the Act.
Section 2(1) of the Act emphasises two points, i.e., that a
limitea period of restriction 13 anticipated, out that this period
will not necessarily be limited to five years. It did not seem
necessary to do more in section 3 of the Ordinance than to provide
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